Seven people were killed in separate road accidents across the country in the last two days, report our correspondents.

The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail to 109 leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), a pro-BNP student body, including its president Fazlur Rahman Khokon and general secretary Iqbal Hossain Shyamol for four weeks in a vandalism case.

Nobel laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus has been sued in 17 fresh cases filed over not paying arrears of 17 incumbent employees of Grameen Telecom.

Image crisis of sub-registrars will go away if they serve people without harassment, said Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday again rejected a bail petition of Bazlur Rashid, suspended deputy inspector general (DIG) of the department of prisons, in connection with a case filed over amassing Tk 3.08 crore beyond the known source of his income.

Forest officials in Panchagarh have rescued an Indian peacock from Chaklahat village and are planning to send it to the national park in Gazipur instead of sending it back to its natural habitat.

A Bangladesh national has died in an Indian hospital after Border Security Force (BSF) tortured him for intruding in the country through Lalmonirhat’s Durgapur frontier on January 20, the deceased’s family says.

Police have arrested 10 activists of Chhatra Shibir from a madrasa hostel in Chapainawabganj municipality area.

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the image crisis of the sub-registrars will be reduced if they properly provide services to the people without harassing them.

Expatriates' Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad has said he will welcome Malaysia's proposal on sending migrant workers to the Southeast Asian country under a "zero-cost" migration policy.

A local leader of Swechhasebak Dal has been stabbed to death in Singair upazila of Manikganj.

A Dhaka court fixes March 2 to decide whether it will frame charges against 10 militants in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act following a raid at Kalyanpur militant den on July 26, 2016.

Teachers and students of Dhaka University’s linguistics department have went on a sit-in programme, demanding withdrawal of the honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degree from former Pakistani autocrat ruler Ayub Khan, President Iskandar Mirza and the country’s then premier Khawaja Nazimuddin.

Mohammad Badrul Ahsan, known as a popular columnist for The Daily Star and former publisher and editor of now defunct First News, passes away at the age of 60.

A schoolboy, who was injured in a knife attack by his friends over a Facebook post in Mymensingh, died at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) on Tuesday night.

The High Court yesterday questioned the legality of Rajuk’s decision to allocate 70-katha land at Purbachal New Town Project to seven family members of Partex Group Chairman MA Hashem.

At least 10 people were killed in road accidents across the country in the last two days.

The prices of a number of everyday commodities, including onion, ginger and garlic, have risen at the country’s largest wholesale market in Chattogram’s Khatunganj, largely due to the spread of coronavirus in China.

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday destroyed 370 litres of cocaine in liquid form, that were smuggled into Chattogram Port from Bolivia in guise of a consignment of sunflower oil in 2015.

Counter-terrorism officials yesterday claimed to have arrested chief of the female wing of militant group “neo-JMB” from the city’s Kamalapur area on Tuesday afternoon.